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1.
[Journal], 1857-1858

Call Number:
Osborn d386
Image Count:
88
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Autograph diary of a six-month visit in Rome with "Charlotte and Papa." The author comments on art and architecture, gardens and fountains, and ancient monuments. The author, probably a woman, is interested in Catholic ceremonies and practices and des...
Description:
Binding: contemporary half red morocco with marbled boards and endpapers.
Subject (Geographic):
Italy., Italy, and Rome (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Antonelli, Giacomo, 1806-1876., Lyell, Charles, Sir, 1797-1875., Lyell, Mary., Spence, Benjamin., and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Customs and practices, Tourism, Travelers' writings, English, Women travelers, Description and travel, Festivals, etc, and Social life and customs
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Journal], 1857-1858

2.
Chandos Leigh family papers, 1814-1850

Creator:
Leigh, Chandos, 1791-1850
Call Number:
OSB MSS 129
Container / Volume:
Box 1
Image Count:
72
Abstract:
20 ALS and 2 autograph manuscripts by Chandos Leigh, first Baron Leigh of Stoneleigh. Almost all of the letters were written during his travels on the Continent. Ten were written to his parents and sister in 1818-19 while he was on the grand tour. Let...
Description:
Chandos Leigh (1791-1850) was educated at Harrow School, where he met Lord Byron, and Christ Church, Oxford, following which he made the grand tour with Philip Shuttleworth. A distant cousin of Jane Austen's, and a generous literary patron to Leigh Hu...
Subject (Geographic):
Europe., Alps, Florence (Italy), Italy, Rome (Italy), and Switzerland
Subject (Name):
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824., Brydges, Egerton, Sir, 1762-1837., Canova, Antonio, 1757-1822., Colvile, Frederick Leigh, 1819-1886., Leigh, Chandos, 1791-1850., Leigh, Chandos, 1791-1850, Leigh, James Henry, 1765-1823., Leigh, Julia, d. 1871., Leigh, Julia Twisleton, d. 1843., Newman, John Henry, Saint, 1801-1890., Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778, Thorvaldsen, Bertel, 1770-1844., Catholic Church, and Rugby School.
Subject (Topic):
Books and reading, Death and burial, Influence, Customs and practices, Authors, English, Dandies, English literature, Grand tours (Education), Tourism, Travelers' writings, English, Description and travel, Social life and customs, and Religious life and customs
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Chandos Leigh family papers, 1814-1850

3.
[Journal], 1838 Oct 4-24.

Creator:
Tebbs, H. V. (Henry Virtue)
Call Number:
Osborn d428
Image Count:
86
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Holograph diary, apparently incomplete, of part of a tour through Italy. The diary opens with a description of a tour of Herculaneum and of antiquities and sight-seeing in Naples, followed by a journey to Rome. Tebbs describes a visit to the Vatican L...
Description:
Annotation on front pastedown: "H. V. Tebbs. Glebe House, Chelsea. Vol. 2."
Subject (Geographic):
Italy., Italy, Florence (Italy), Naples (Italy), and Rome (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Tebbs, H. V. (Henry Virtue) and Biblioteca apostolica vaticana.
Subject (Topic):
Tourism, Travelers' writings, English, Description and travel, and Antiquities
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Journal], 1838 Oct 4-24.

4.
[Diary], 1828 Oct-1829 Feb

Call Number:
Osborn d415
Image Count:
80
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript journal, by a woman, of travel with her husband George from Venice to Rome in the autumn and winter of 1828-29. Topics include sightseeing, excursions to Roman ruins and the Borghese Gardens; social events, including meetings with Sir Hump...
Description:
First few pages cut out.
Subject (Geographic):
Italy., Italy, and Rome (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Camuccini, Vincenzo, 1771-1844., Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de, 1768-1848., Cipriani, Giovanni Battista, 1766-1839., Davy, Humphry, Sir, 1778-1829., Gibson, John, 1790-1866., Thorvaldsen, Bertel, 1770-1844., and Wyatt, Richard James, 1795-1850.
Subject (Topic):
Tourism, Travelers' writings, English, Women travelers, and Description and travel
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Diary], 1828 Oct-1829 Feb

5.
Journal of a tour on the continent of Europe made in 1823 by Thomas Cowper Hincks and John Hincks

Creator:
Hincks, John, 1788-1842
Call Number:
Osborn d408
Container / Volume:
Volume 1
Image Count:
98
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Holograph journal in two versions (original and fair copy) of a tour from London to Naples and return via Switzerland, Germany and the Low Countries made by the Hincks brothers between March 29th and December 8th, 1823
Subject (Geographic):
Europe., Alps, France, Ital, Naples (Italy), Rome (Italy), and Switzerland
Subject (Name):
Canova, Antonio, 1757-1822., Etty, William, 1787-1849., Hamilton, William, 1777-1859., Hincks, John, 1788-1842., Hincks, Thomas Cowper, 1788-1865., and Thorvaldsen, Bertel, 1777-1844.
Subject (Topic):
Grand tours (Education), Tourism, Travelers' writings, English, Tourists, and Description and travel
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Journal of a tour on the continent of Europe made in 1823 by Thomas Cowper Hincks and John Hincks and written by John Hincks, 1823

6.
Journal : from Pisa on Monday Nov 17th 1817 to Arta on Sunday May 10th 1818. continued, Vol. II

Creator:
Cornwall, Alan Gardner, 1797-1874
Call Number:
Osborn d424
Image Count:
267
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Holograph diary tracing 6 months of Cornwall's extended foreign tour in the company of Henry Venn Elliott, his tutor at Trinity College, Cambridge. This volume covers his journey from Pisa through various Italian cities and his subsequent travels to B...
Description:
Alphabetical index of placenames at back of volume.
Subject (Geographic):
Albania, Florence (Italy), Iōannina (Greece), Naples (Italy), Pisa (Italy), and Rome (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Ali Pașa, Tepedelenli, 1744?-1822., Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824, Cornwall, Alan Gardner, 1797-1874., Elliott, Henry Venn, 1792-1865., Maitland, Thomas, Sir, 1759?-1824., Biblioteca apostolica vaticana., Catholic Church, Palazzo Medici Riccardi., and Palazzo Pitti.
Subject (Topic):
Influence, Customs and practices, Grand tours (Education), Travelers' writings, English, Description and travel, Social life and customs, Antiquities, and Festivals, etc
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Journal : from Pisa on Monday Nov 17th 1817 to Arta on Sunday May 10th 1818. continued, Vol. II, 1817-1818

7.
A lamentable ballad of the tragical end of a gallant lord and virtuous lady : together with the

Published / Created:
[between 1701 and 1800?]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image and text
Description:
Caption title above woodcut.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Rome (Italy)
Subject (Topic):
Household employees, Murder, Master and servant, Abused children, Pleading (Begging), Homicides, and Criminals
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A lamentable ballad of the tragical end of a gallant lord and virtuous lady : together with the untimely death of their two children

8.
Landscape with peasants and cattle the Colosseum and the arch of Septimus Severus are seen int eh

Creator:
Earlom, Richard, 1743-1822, engraver
Published / Created:
[1 September 1775]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3669.2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from accompanying List of plates published by Boydell.
Publisher:
Published Septr 1st. 1775 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside
Subject (Geographic):
Rome (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Lorrain, Claude, 1600-1682
Subject (Topic):
Views, Colosseum (Rome, Italy), and Triumphal arches
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Landscape with peasants and cattle the Colosseum and the arch of Septimus Severus are seen int eh distance : Claude himself also is represented drawing / [graphic]

9.
A lamentable ballad of the tragical end of a gallant lord and vertuous lady : together with the

Published / Created:
[between 1680 and 1710?]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image and text
Description:
In five columns with the title and woodcut above the first two; imprint below the last three; the columns are not separated by rules.
Publisher:
Printed by and for C.B. [Brown?] and sold by J. Walter, at the Hand and Pen in High Holborn
Subject (Geographic):
Rome (Italy)
Subject (Topic):
Household employees, Murder, Master and servant, Abused children, Pleading (Begging), Homicides, and Criminals
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A lamentable ballad of the tragical end of a gallant lord and vertuous lady : together with the untimely death of their two children, wickedly performed by a heathenish and blood-thirsty blackamore, their servant, the like of which cruelty and murther was never before heard of. To the tune of The lady's fall, &c. Enter’d according to order

10.
A new mapp of Rome shewing its antient and present scituation

Creator:
Browne, Christopher, active 1684-1712
Published / Created:
[ca. 1700?]
Call Number:
1973 Folio 10
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
New map of Rome showing its ancient and present situation
Description:
BEIN 1973 Folio 10: Sheet measures 52 x 61.2 cm. Bookplate of José M. Rodriguez. No. 20 of 63 maps bound together.
Publisher:
By Christopher Browne at the Globe near the west end of St. Pauls
Subject (Geographic):
Rome (Italy)
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A new mapp of Rome shewing its antient and present scituation

11.
Voornaamste gebouwen vande stadt Romen t'Amsterdam

Creator:
Ram, Johannes de, 1648-1693, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1690]
Call Number:
724 690R
Image Count:
59
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Views of Rome (including the Vatican City), London, Amsterdam, and Tangier
Description:
All engraved.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), Rome (Italy), Amsterdam (Netherlands), and Vatican City
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Voornaamste gebouwen vande stadt Romen t'Amsterdam

12.
The Wonder of wonders : giving an account of two old men, lately and strangely known to be in the

Published / Created:
1683
Call Number:
BrSides 1988 144
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Description:
Beinecke copy imperfect: bled at top and right side.
Publisher:
Printed for J. Clarke, senior, at the Bible and Harp ... in VVest-Smith-field
Subject (Geographic):
Rome (Italy)
Subject (Topic):
Brit Tracts --1683., Prophecies., and Religion
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The Wonder of wonders : giving an account of two old men, lately and strangely known to be in the city of Rome in Italy, and how they came invisibly thither, together with their ten strange and wonderful prophesies which particularly do mention what shall

13.
Liberianae Basilicae facies interior qva arae maximae obversa est. pl. 95

Published / Created:
1621
Call Number:
1976 Folio 121
Collection Title:
Basilicae S. Mariae Maioris de vrbe a Liberio Papa I vsqve ad Pavlvm V pont. max. descriptio et
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Description:
Includes scale
Subject (Geographic):
Rome (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Rome. Santa Maria Maggiore (Church)
Collection Created:
Romae, ex typographia B. Zannetti, 1621
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Liberianae Basilicae facies interior qva arae maximae obversa est. pl. 95

14.
Notarial register of charters relating to the Hospital of St. Ambrose (Rome).

Creator:
Archiconfraternita dei SS. Ambrogio e Carlo dei Lombardi
Published / Created:
[ca. 1485-1585]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 675
Image Count:
185
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment of a collection of documents pertaining to the Hospital of St. Ambrose in Rome compiled over a century and containing a core of foundation documents and numerous later additions
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Rome (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Archiconfraternita dei SS. Ambrogio e Carlo dei Lombardi.
Subject (Topic):
Charters, Hospitals, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Notarial register of charters relating to the Hospital of St. Ambrose (Rome).

15.
Rhomitypion

Creator:
Ponti, Antonino
Published / Created:
1523.
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 791
Image Count:
124
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of Antoninus Pontus (Antonino Ponti from Cosenza, ca. 1600-1650), Rhomitypion. An allegorical treatise in three parts on the past and present state of Rome and Italy, topography, cosmography, geography, etc. Includes a dream vision...
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Rome (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Ponti, Antonino.
Subject (Topic):
Allegory, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Laudatory poetry, Latin, Manuscripts, Medieval, Visions, and Description and travel
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Rhomitypion

16.
Hours of the Virgin; Life of the Virgin; Description of the pilgrim churches in Rome

Published / Created:
[ca. 1475]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 652
Image Count:
95
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper
Description:
In German.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Rome (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Books of hours, Devotional literature, German, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Description and travel
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Hours of the Virgin; Life of the Virgin; Description of the pilgrim churches in Rome

17.
Pomponius Mela; Vibius Sequester; Dares, etc

Creator:
Mela, Pomponius
Published / Created:
[between 1450 and 1475]
Call Number:
Marston MS 76
Image Count:
156
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper (various watermarks), composed in four parts, of 1) Pomponius Mela, De chorographia libri tres, ending abruptly in III.107. 2) Vibius Sequester, De fluminibus, fontibus, lacubus, nemoribus, paludibus, montibus, gentibus. 3) Unident...
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., Rome (Italy), and Troy (Extinct city)
Subject (Name):
Mela, Pomponius.
Subject (Topic):
Cosmography, Education, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Description and travel
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Pomponius Mela; Vibius Sequester; Dares, etc

18.
Mirabilia Romae; Valerius Maximus, Facta et dicta memorabilia, with glosses

Published / Created:
1471.
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 762
Image Count:
904
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper containing 1) Legendary history of the foundation of Rome. 2) Mirabilia Romae. 3) Note on Roman abbreviations especially for personal names. 4) Heading of an index to the Roman History of Livy (?). 5) Note on officials, functions a...
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Rome (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Valerius Maximus.
Subject (Topic):
Didactic literature, Latin, Manuscripts, Medieval, Scholia, Description and travel, and History
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Mirabilia Romae; Valerius Maximus, Facta et dicta memorabilia, with glosses

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